Ianus J. Wolf

You said it by implication to my initial statement, as my initial statement was about Dems' willingness to sacrifice the wellbeing of people for points they'll never get. You indicated clearly that sacrificing us was an acceptable strategy to you.

Don't bandy amateur word games with me.

So you're saying any vulnerable group of Americans is a worthy sacrifice on the altar of greed and bigotry if the proper letter is in front of the elected name? Where does that end? How many people sacrificed is too many for you?
Handy to expound when you and yours aren't first or next on the list.

The reality is that what they're courting isn't the "center"; it's the "slightly less right-wing in our Overton shift nightmare". And even slightly less right-wingers are still brainwashed that "Dem = Devil".
And the old shits completely ignore all the voters they lose by sacrificing the vulnerable.

Old Dems have really bought into the bad-faith advice from strategists from the 80's-90's (who have LOST recent elections for them) that all they have to do is distance from the left and "weirdos" and throw a few people under the bus to "get the center vote". It's uncanny how stupid this is.

If you want to believe it, check it twice
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If you want to believe it, check it twice
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Doesn’t matter if it’s awful
Doesn’t matter if it’s nice
If it confirms your bias, check it twice!
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Users of a piece of software or platform should be able to entirely opt out of using AI with the click of a single button

I don't want LLMs in my search
I don't want LLMs in my image editors
I don't want LLMs gobbling my data
I don't want LLMs ruining the planet

Consumers have the right to opt out

Adding to this:

"Porn Addiction" is not a thing.

So wank and be happy, my friends.

remember: this. is. a moral panic. It starts with content that is anti-abuse, sure. you could argue this is noble in its intention, but it is utterly misplaced. But then it is anti-fiction, anti-kink, anti-sex, and inevitably, anti-LGBT.

I’ve been trying to explain to people the full extent of assfuckery accomplished by the ending of the de minimis rule

Small businesses, independent creators, publishing companies, Etsy-style shops & just plain ol’ folks in the US trying to buy stuff from anywhere else are royally fucked

Hey, do you live in Washington State and have been affected by the Visa and MasterCard porn censorship bans? Please get in touch with me! I have an in-person meeting with State Senator Alvarado coming up about this topic and I would love to bring stories from people who've been directly harmed!

Reminder: Republicans never actually favored "small government" and it was always just code for letting the rich run roughshod over everyone else and controlling enough smaller municipalities to allow bigoted policies to continue.

They always wanted the government to crush you as a person.

So they pay their mouthpieces millions to trash-talk the idea of kindness and protection as priorities, to try and claim this iconic character was never supposed to care more about shielding a child than he did about delivering a super punch somewhere.
But kindness was always the core of Superman.

A genuine belief in kindness with strength means maybe we wouldn't just let whole groups of people fall under the bus for convenience.
Caring about true protection over attack means we might not let billionaires ransack health care away from the poorest people.
And moneyed interests hate that.
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So many men absolutely hate the idea that strength can come with and from kindness, because they're just addicted to cruelty as maleness. And they're trained that way because if we believed in kindness and genuine protection, we might look at a few things in the real world differently.
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The newest movie even has Superman rejecting the very notion of the other male power fantasy when other guys are jealous that he might have a harem of women hidden somewhere. And people weened on nothing but that lesser version of the fantasy can't stand the concept that maybe it's not the best.
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Wholesome Male Power Fantasy (Superman, Aragorn, some others): "What if I truly had the power to protect everything I care most about, to defend the weak, inspire young people, and find true love from someone who bonds with me. To struggle and keep going no matter what. That would be amazing."
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Standard Male Power Fantasy (Bond, 80's action movies, etc.): "What if I were so badass that I could just straight up murder all my enemies and all the bad guys and look super cool and have a harem of women falling all over me for no other reason than my utter coolness. That would be sweet."
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The reason Superman done right angers so many chuds is that it's a refutation of the standard male power fantasy in favor of a wholesome male power fantasy.
For decades, boys becoming men have been inundated with a version of male power that is angry, violent, and is somehow owed women.
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Then in American we have people who will call something an "ancient tradition" and it was literally manufactured in the 1950's around their birth as Tradition™, one the many mass-marketed products in the Americana™ line of manufactured culture.

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

Once more, for those in the back:

People insufficiently grounded or mature to distinguish between “fantasy I don’t enjoy” and “fantasy you shouldn’t be allowed to depict” will never be allies of more than convenience—a convenience that will always be theirs, and not your own. Do not trust them.

Est. Dems: "You can't discount Gavin Newsome just because he literally said 'Yes, I will toss the homeless and trans people under the bus.' Stop the purity tests!"

Also EDs: "I know Mamdani has many Jewish supporters and has never threatened Jewish safety, but he MUST address this for our support!"

There are enough Suspiciously Wealthy Furries out there that I'm legit kind of shocked we don't already have a separate paypro and media platform that is friendly to all queer and kink so we don't have to keep dealing with this crap.

It would basically be an investment both financial and community.

I've said it before: Every furry that works a crucial IT and internet-running job with unique, irreplaceable knowledge needs to pick a specific day to shut everyone's shit down for a specific amount of time.

Then a co-written letter needs to be sent everywhere basically saying: "Back the fuck off."

CIA approved tactics for populations under hostile occupation

I think a lot of the right wing's spiral in the last 20 years can be explained by them replacing everything enjoyable with "getting mad", and that this is less a chart of Republicans drinking and more a chart of them not socializing as much anymore

"Don't worry, we can just scan your face to judge your age without a full ID in the new dystopian anti-freedom world."

1. That's still dangerous to allow that data to be stored somewhere to be hacked with facial recognition.
2. Damn, I guess I should buy stock in the fake beard store now.

Do you want to know why republicans are trying to subvert democratic norms to achieve their agenda?

Because they can’t win on a fair playing field and they know it.

The real question is why our institutions are capitulating to the most hated president of modern history.

Granted it does not help that decades of "churches and rich people always get tax breaks" has given the worst people in the world an endless warchest to create false narratives.

So each one of us has to make our voice heard loud. Get everyone involved, spread the word, tell every friend you can.